Word: speciesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Princeton (3-4, 3-6) may have pulled coach Bob Casciola off the endangered species' list, socking it to Cornell (1-6, 1-8) 34-0. Tailback Bobby Isom once more turned in his song-and-dance show, waltzing past Cornell for 178 yards.
(2 of 10) evidence of man amidst the fossilized bones of long-extinct animals-and the growing sophistication of geologists and biologists? had all but discredited the Ussher-Lightfoot calculations by 1859, when Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. Although Darwin did not discuss man in this work...
But the skull raised a new problem. While anthropologists could accept the idea of man having evolved from Australopithecus, the evidence seemed to show that Homo habilis lived at the same time as his less advanced cousins. If so, could he have descended from them? Also, if several species of...
Though scientists have found practically no telltale fossils from the crucial period between 8 million and 5 million years ago, anthropologists speculate that some time toward the end of this period the hominid line split into the species Australopithecus robustus and africanus. There was also a third species, which some...
The feud had ended in 1972 when the elder Leakey flew to Koobi Fora to spend an exciting evening with his son, examining fossils late into the night by the harsh light of a gas lantern. That night Louis predicted that Richard would find evidence of three hominid species at...